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Everyone And Obama Kicking Back On Martha's Vineyard This Week
We have truly entered the family vacation portion of summer, what with last week's National Parks free day and the anxiety of squeezing in trips before Labor Day. Although President Obama, Michelle, Malia and Sasha have spent their summer traveling around the world and taking in various tourist sites, they have also been working all the while. Thus, it's even time for the first family to call it quits for a bit and head to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts for some deserved rest and relaxation.
They'll even be renting a summer vacation home for the week-long break, but this isn't some cottage with a leaky canoe; it's the 28-acre, $35,000-a-week Blue Heron Farm on the island's southern edge. With the arrival of the Obamas, Martha's Vineyard has become the late summer celebrity vacation hotspot, as it's reported that the likes of Jay-Z, Beyonce, Oprah, Spike Lee, Pele (the Brazilion soccer star) and even the Clintons are also in town.
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Booking A Vacation Rental: The Top 3 Sites to Search
Let’s quit being technical about it; the summer travel season is upon us. If you haven’t booked your trip yet, you might want to think about a vacation rental. For the same price as a hotel, or sometimes less, you can often score more amenities and space. Unfortunately, you usually have to clean up your own mess—no maid service for us slobs.
If this type of accommodation freedom sounds up your alley, we've compiled a few of the best sites to help you pick out your dream home away from home. Just make sure that you register your rental with HomeAway before you send your payment to the owner. It’s totally free, and you’ll be covered up to $5,000—just in case the place is a little less than what was described.
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Would You Buy A Chilean Vacation Home?
We've been feeling pretty inspired by Jaunted embed Shira Lazar's reports from Chile lately. But are you sold enough to buy in there? Real estate firms are attempting to combat the local slowdown by offering free flights and hotels to new apartment buyers.
Like in the U.S., housing sales in Chile have experienced double-digit losses from last year, and President Michelle Bachelet is working on a national stimulus plan. For realtors in the cities of Santiago and Viña del Mar, that means knocking 20 percent off December prices and adding in some free trips. You don't have to be a resident but you will need a rol unico tributario (individual tax ID for non-citizens) in order to put your deposit on your dream home, which could start at $28,000 USD.
Of course, as we all learned with the American housing crisis, this investment cannot lose because housing always goes up in value... right?
Related Stories:
· Chile realtors offer nighttime anti-crisis discounts [Reuters]
· Social Travel: 24 Hours In Santiago [Jaunted]
· It's Summer Somewhere: Viña del Mar, Chile [Jaunted]
[Photo: Antonio Bracani]
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Puddle-jumping to your vacation home
The New York Times reports on the latest vacation trend: buying a vacation home hundreds of miles away from your primary residence and then (wait for it!) flying there on the weekends. Thanks to low-cost carriers like Southwest and JetBlue (which commenced their New York to Burlington, Vermont route in 2000 with $29 fares), getting to homes two or three states away is often easier than sitting in traffic for four hours on, say, the Long Island Expressway while heading out to, say, the Hamptons. (You wily Hamptons with your awful traffic! Curses!)
The article makes it seem like everybody is buying a second, not-at-all-nearby vacation home...which makes us feel kind of bad. We don't even have the money to buy our first right-here-right-now home. Sigh.
Related Stories
· 'JetBlue Factor' [NY Times]
· Escape Homes [Official Site]
